This comes from NYSCSS AND NYS4A
March 22-24, 2012 will see our next Annual Conference at the Saratoga Hilton in Saratoga Springs, NY. Conference proposals are being accepted online. Please click here or go to nyscss.org to submit your creative and innovative ideas. The schedule is slightly different from past years with sessions being offered on Friday and Saturday, the 23 and 24 of March and Thursday March 22 will primarily be for the governance meetings of the committees and board of NYSCSS and NYS4A. We are looking to adapt our conference model to meet the needs of the times more effectively.
Opportunities for Professional Development
There are several interesting programs happening in and around the Rochester area for social studies educators. Please take a moment to check out our Upcoming Events calendar.
What is RACSS? We asked you, and this is what we heard.
Last fall, as we launched this new website, we collected feedback from our members to help us refine our mission and revitalize our organization. Those surveys pointed us to six key priorities. Please look these over and use the new blog set up in the Member Features portal to give us your thoughts.
The BIG 6 Ways RACSS can serve its members, in alphabetical order, include:
1. Advocating for social studies education in Albany
2. Cultivating a virtual community of social studies educators
3. Enhancing teacher mastery of content
4. Helping members improve pedagogy and differentiate instruction
5. Maintaining a calendar of social studies related events
6. Tapping into local history resources and museums
Who is RACSS?
The Rochester Area Council for the Social Studies (RACSS) is a professional association of teachers and supervisors at the elementary, middle, secondary, college and university levels. Membership is open to all persons who teach, supervise, develop curricula, engage in research, or are otherwise concerned with social studies education. The organization is a marketplace of ideas as well as a forum and showcase for new materials, teaching methods, strategies, programs, and personalities. Established in the 1970s, the Rochester Area Council for the Social Studies has been one of the largest and most active affiliates of the New York State Council for the Social Studies.
